celeb illness
Amy Winehouse Round-Up: Rushed To Hospital (Again)
10:46AM Clem Bastow | Lord, lord, lord, lord… Saying a story about Amy Winehouse having a (presumably drug-related) health crisis is “breaking news” is like saying “Exclusive: Man Invents Wheel” – but, there you go, evidently it is a breaking story in the UK, since no one seems to know what the bloody hell is going on this time:
Troubled singer Amy Winehouse has been stretchered out of her home and rushed tto the accident and emergency ward of a London hospital.
The singer was seen being wheeled out of her north London home just after 8.40pm this evening by paramedics, as her beleaguered father Mitch Winehouse watched.
Paramedics were called by father Mitch after Amy reportedly suffered an episode of ‘fitting’. Her spokesperson said the singer had ’suffered a reaction to medication’.
She was then taken to the accident and emergency department of UCH where she has been admitted.
it feels wrong to be sincerely hoping that she actually did suffer a reaction to medication, because I’m sure I’m not the only person in the world assuming that suffering a “reaction” to some “medication” is probably the more likely cause at hand. Watch this space. More » 
Celine Dion Does Not “Do” Australian Air
2:20PM Clem Bastow | With every passing day we’re starting to realise how much we actually love Celine Dion. A cursory glance through Defamer Australia’s history will reveal as much, but she’s just so lovably crazy we want to eat her up with a spoon!
And her first few moments in Australia (on tour) are no exception to the rule, getting about like Michael Jackson (though we’re not sure whether it’s to stop her from infecting everyone else, or vice versa):
Celine Dion brought back memories of the SARS days on the Gold Coast yesterday, appearing in a medical mask when leaving her luxury hotel with husband Rene Angelil and son Rene-Charles.
The French-Canadian warbler has angered fans by postponing her Brisbane concert, due to a throat infection and “irritated sinuses”.
Oh Celine! You had us at It’s All Coming Back To Me Now.
Speaking of which, some mid-afternoon power balladry for you, after the jump! Motorcycles! Lightning! Possibly excessive use of wind machines! Enjoy!
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Get Well Soon, Bazza!
10:40AM Clem Bastow | Even though he’s more or less deserted us for the bright lights of Broadway and London (though at least he still makes his trade on being “Australian”™, unlike that perpetually mid-Atlantic Clive James – but we love him, too), we’ll always love Barry Humphries, so we were concerned to see that dear old Baz is somewhat under the weather following an operation he underwent before Christmas:
The Aussie star – better known as Dame Edna Everage – had his appendix out in December.
The 73-year-old, has been forced to cancel a US tour as well as his only British-scheduled appearance in Glasgow in March.
A spokesman for the Glasgow International Comedy Festival said: “He’s going in for more surgery this week.”
He’s 73! The mind boggles – somehow he’s been stuck in our minds, hovering eternally around 55 or so.
We’d like to send our warmest get well wishes to gramps! Someone arrange some Interflora gladioli on our behalf, that’s a good readership. More » 
Get Well Soon, Marshall!
7:02AM Jess McGuire | We hadn’t thought of Eminem for quite a while, but then the other week we caught some of Eight Mile on the telly (we’d forgotten how dirty that scene where Brittany Murphy spits in her hand for lubricant “during” makes us feel) and wondered “What the hell is he up to these days, anyway? Married? Divorced? Penning ditties about Britney’s current condition?”
The answer is – he’s been in hospital!
Eminem is recovering from a bout with pneumonia that sent him to the hospital.
“Over the holidays, Marshall Mathers, aka Eminem, was under doctor’s care at a Detroit-area hospital for complications due to pneumonia,” the rapper’s publicist, Dennis Dennehy, said Tuesday. “He has since been released and is doing well recovering at home.”
So there you have it. More » 